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PAR North America has hired Stacey White to lead its remarketing services division as senior vice president. This appointment aims to further develop and expand PAR’s remarketing products for its customers, according to Lisa Scott, North American president.
Vehicle relocation service Auto Driveaway, which serves large corporate fleets, has acquired the assets of heavy truck transport service J&J, which expands its scope in the heavy truck transportation market.
Cox Automotive's dealer technology unit vAuto has acquired iReconCars and relaunched the reconditioning management platform as iRecon to help dealers and other partners improve used vehicle reconditioning efficiency and speed, the company announced.
The award is sponsored by Bobit Business Media and National Auto Auction Association; ballots will close on Thursday, Jan. 31. The winner will be announced at the 2019 Conference of Automotive Remarketing, which will be held on March 26-27, 2019 at Caesars Palace Las Vegas.
KAR Auction Services, Inc. has promoted Peter Kelly from to its newly created role of president.
CAR is a joint conference between Bobit Business Media, the National Auto Auction Association, and the International Automotive Remarketers Alliance.
The top news of 2018 included coverage on the hurricane's impact on the remarketing industry, the effects of the off-lease tidal wave, mobile technology and Manheim.
Manheim has named Fredrick Standfield as senior vice president of its assurance and reconditioning group, according to a company announcement.
Bobit Business Media has been acquired by Gemspring Capital, a middle-market private equity firm. Bobit, which bought HDT in 2012, was founded by Ed Bobit in 1961 with Automotive Fleet and today is a successful business-to-business media company in the fleet, transportation, beauty, and law enforcement industries.
Due to the areas affected being less densely populated than cities affected by recent hurricanes such as Florence, Irma, and Harvey, the impact on the auto industry will be less severe than those hurricanes.
Event Solutions International will begin operating as Motus One and invest $2 million in technology to streamline 90% of the processes of the automotive mobility company that provides vehicle transportation services and event management.
The federal criminal complaint that charged the two for odometer fraud alleged that for four years the two men had purchased vehicles from auctions, dealers, and individuals in order to alter the odometers to reflect lower mileage numbers.
Following last year’s record-breaking attendance, the 2018 Summer Roundtable once again saw a nearly record breaking number of attendees for this year's event.
PAR North America has awarded its Agent of the Year and 2018 Resolution and Compliance Champion, the vehicle recovery service provider has announced.
Vehicle logistics provider Acertus has been named one of 150 top workplaces for 2018 by its hometown St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
View photos from the 2019 Conference of Automotive Remarketing, which took place from March 25 to 27 at Caesars Palace Las Vegas.
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